Background: While performing surgeries in the OR, surgeons and assistants often need to
access several information regarding surgical planning and/or procedures related to the …

Visual and haptic simulation of bone surgery can support and extend current surgical
training techniques. The authors present a system for simulating surgeries involving bone …

One of the most important advantages of computer simulators for surgical training is the
opportunity they afford for independent learning. However, if the simulator does not provide …

We present a physics-based training simulator for bone machining. Based on experimental
studies, the energy required to remove a unit volume of bone is a constant for every …

Medical surgery involves a high degree of skill and experience, making the learning curve
for medical trainees quite long. For instance, in eye cataract surgery, despite it only taking …

Burring surgery is mainly implemented for fine or critical structures and widely used in
orthopedic, oral and maxillofacial, ENT and neurosurgery departments to delicately cut or …

Training systems for dental implantology that are based on virtual reality need a precise
haptic feedback with six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) This is particularly challenging when …

This paper presents a novel orthopaedic surgery simulator, capable of analyzing,
processing and displaying medical images. These newly added capabilities allows the …

Bone sawing is widely used for mandibular angle reduction. In this paper, we develop a
surgical simulator for mandibular angle reduction with real-time collision detection, bone …

Surgical training has traditionally followed an apprenticeship model: residents observe a
number of procedures, then begin practicing in the operating room. And every time a …